See - and hear - Chaplin's "City Lights", presented by The Fox Tucson Theatre and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.
Featured on the April 18, 2024 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- This Saturday, The Fox Tucson Theatre and The Tucson Symphony Orchestra are working together on a special film event. It’s a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 classic City Lights with live musical accompaniment by The Tucson Symphony conducted by José Luis Gomez, performing the original score that was composed by Chaplin himself. Maestro Gomez and Fox Theatre director Bonnie Schock join Mark to share their enthusiasm for the film, and this collaboration.
- NPR Washington correspondent Sarah McCammon has authored a new book based on her own life story, called The Ex-vangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church. It follows her journey from being brought up in a deeply evangelical Midwestern family, to challenging this strict worldview for most of her adult life. Then, McCammon covered the 2016 Trump presidential campaign for NPR, and witnessed the power and influence that evangelical Christian beliefs hold over the political right. Duncan Moon interviews McCammon about the book.
- As part of our monthly storytelling segment the third Thursday of the month, Tucson resident Steve Braun joins us with his recollection of Little League when he was a little boy. Originally from New York, Steve has lived in Tucson since 1995. He discovered storytelling after graduate school in 2014 and has become a huge fan of this craft. Steve Braun is now a board member with Odyssey Storytelling in Tucson where he’s also responsible for recording their monthly performances. He also produces and hosts the organization’s podcast.
- In 2022, Tucson writer Susan Cummins Miller brought together her love of geology and her love of poetry to create the chapbook Making Silent Stones Sing. This week, the show closes with Cummins Miller reading the title poem.
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